Seasonal events, race days and special occasions in the UK and beyond.
A guest post from Dylan — our daughter’s partner, attending Royal Ascot for the first time in 2025. I should state for the record that I am not a horse person. I have no strong feelings about horses in either direction, which I considered a perfectly reasonable position before attending an event where horses are,…
We got lucky with the weather both years — properly hot, occasionally a little too hot for the suit-and-fascinator combination, but that’s a reasonable price for actual sunshine at an outdoor event in England. The Royal Procession The Royal Procession is the centrepiece of the afternoon. The crowd lines the course, the carriages come through…
An ad for Royal Ascot popped up on my phone recently, and it sent me straight back to planning our two visits — the first a few years ago, and again in 2025. Both times it was Ian’s idea of a birthday present for me, delivered roughly a month after my actual birthday. Neither of…